The new iPhones are on fire in Japan! We already know Apple’s smartphoneshare in the 127 million people country is biggerthan that in the United States as theiPhone 5sandiPhone 5cseemingly break sales records in one of the most competitive tech markets on the planet.
Counterpoint Research gavethe iPhone a cool 34 percent share of Japan’s smartphone market during the month of October, withKantar givingApple a slight lead over Android in Japan.
But according to Kantar’s latest revised data, the iPhone maker has grabbed more than three-quarters of new smartphone sales last month in the Land of the Rising Sun…
Unwired View relayed Kantar’s numbers giving Apple a cool 76 percent share of Japan’s smartphone sales during the month of October. This easily makes Japan the second best iPhone market, after the United States where the Cupertino firm accounts for at least one out of each three smartphones sold.
Speaking of the United States, Kantar reckoned that U.S. sales of the flagship iPhone 5s were forty percent higher versus the iPhone 5c during the month of October.
Interestingly enough, we’re now hearing some armchair estimates about theiPhone 5c possibly outselling Samsung’s Galaxy S4 in India. You’ll remember Apple’s been seenexperimenting with various sales tacticsin India for quite some time now.
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KDDI and SoftBank have been selling the device for years now.
NTT DoCoMo’s Senior Executive Vice PresidentKazuto Tsubouchi recently confirmedhis company would also start offering the iPad Air to its customers by the end of the current fiscal year through next March. It would appear that Apple is finally catching up to demand in terms of both theiPhone 5sandiPad mini with Retina display.
Germany: Apple owners almost twice as likely to buy products/services through their mobile than Android (19% vs. 11%)
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The iPhone 5s used to be hard to come by, but the online Apple Store is now quoting ship times of three to five days as the handset’savailability tops 90 percent in the United States. The unlocked iPhone 5s, for example,is now available from the online Apple Storein all colors, capacity models and across all major carriers.
As Apple nowallows for walk-in sales, Retina iPad mini models withboth Wi-FiandWi-Fi + Cellularnow appear to be readily available at most Apple Stores in the United States and around the world.
The Wall Street Journalreported yesterday that Foxconn has now ramped up iPhone 5s production, with another report by DigiTimes similarly claiming that November orders for the iPad mini with Retina displayneared four million units.
Retina iPad minis beganarriving to regional U.S. carrierson Monday, starting with U.S. Cellular, Bluegrass Cellular and C-Spire Wireless.
